English to Afrikaans Meaning :: tendentious

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Adjective(1) having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one

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(1) The version is not itself a lie, but it is a relentlessly tendentious interpretation.(2) They make some good points, some misleading points, and a few rather tendentious points.(3) His realism could involve a fair amount of tendentious editing, glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence.(4) Government advertising campaigns should be objective and explanatory, not tendentious or party political.(5) Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown.(6) It is a highly tendentious , obviously partisan and unreliable document.(7) Some of his examples are tendentious but he is broadly right.(8) This intensive and tendentious coverage made it obvious that some satellite channels were pursuing agendas of their own.(9) The scriptwriter must fashion this already tendentious material into watchable drama.(10) The channel is dispensing a view of the world that is tendentious and intellectually idle.(11) The author's choice of this phrase was clearly tendentious .(12) The book is tendentious and unconvincing but well-written.(13) It is an effort not to understand but to use history to advance a tendentious agenda.(14) The investigation was prejudiced and tendentious .(15) His use of evidence was tendentious and manipulative.(16) This argument mixes so many distortions, falsehoods and tendentious points that it's not easy to know where to start.

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Adjective

1. tendencious ::

tendentieus

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tendentious, tendentiously, tendentiousness

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